7th World Championships in Athletics

Host city	Seville, Spain
Nations	201
Athletes	1821
Dates	20–29 August 1999
Opened by	Juan Carlos I
Main venue	Estadio Olímpico de la Cartuja
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The 7th World Championships in Athletics, a World Athletic Championships event held under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Estadio Olímpico de la Cartuja, Seville, Spain, between the August 20 and August 29.

One of the main highlights of the games was the world record set in the 400 metres by Michael Johnson of the United States in a time of 43.18 seconds.

Men's results

Track

1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Maurice Greene United States	9.80 (CR)	Bruny Surin Canada	9.84 (=NR)	Dwain Chambers Great Britain	9.97 (PB)
200 m details	Maurice Greene United States	19.90 (SB)	Claudinei da Silva Brazil	20.00 (PB)	Francis Obikwelu Nigeria	20.11
400 m details	Michael Johnson United States	43.18 (WR)	Sanderlei Claro Parrela Brazil	44.29 (AR)	Alejandro Cárdenas Mexico	44.31 (NR)
800 m details	Wilson Kipketer Denmark	1:43.30	Hezekiél Sepeng South Africa	1:43.32	Djabir Saïd-Guerni Algeria	1:44.18 (NR)
1500 m details	Hicham El Guerrouj Morocco	3:27.65 (CR)	Noah Ngeny Kenya	3:28.73 (NR)	Reyes Estévez Spain	3:30.57 (PB)
5000 m details	Salah Hissou Morocco	12:58.13 (CR)	Benjamin Limo Kenya	12:58.72	Mohammed Mourhit Belgium	12:58.80
10,000 m details	Haile Gebrselassie Ethiopia	27:57.27	Paul Tergat Kenya	27:58.56	Assefa Mezgebu Ethiopia	27:59.15
Marathon details	Abel Antón Spain	2:13:36	Vincenzo Modica Italy	2:14:03	Nobuyuki Sato Japan	2:14:07
110 m hurdles details	Colin Jackson Great Britain	13.04 (SB)	Anier García Cuba	13.07 (NR)	Duane Ross United States	13.12 (PB)
400 m hurdles details	Fabrizio Mori Italy	47.72 (WL)	Stéphane Diagana France	48.12 (SB)	Marcel Schelbert Switzerland	48.13 (NR)
3000 m st. details	Christopher Kosgei Kenya	8:11.76	Wilson Boit Kipketer Kenya	8:12.09	Ali Ezzine Morocco	8.12.73
20 km walk details	Ilya Markov Russia	1:23:34	Jefferson Pérez Ecuador	1:24:19	Daniel García Mexico	1:24:31
50 km walk details	Ivano Brugnetti Italy	3:47:54¹ (PB)	Nikolay Matyukhin Russia	3:48:18	Curt Clausen United States	3:50:55
4 × 100 m relay details	United States (USA) Jon Drummond Tim Montgomery Brian Lewis Maurice Greene	37.59 (WL)	Great Britain (GBR) Jason Gardener Darren Campbell Marlon Devonish Dwain Chambers Allyn Condon*	37.73 (AR)	Brazil (BRA) Raphael de Oliveira Claudinei da Silva Édson Ribeiro André da Silva	38.05² (AR)
4 × 400 m relay details	Poland (POL) Tomasz Czubak Robert Maćkowiak Jacek Bocian Piotr Haczek Piotr Długosielski*	2:58.91³ (SB)	Jamaica (JAM) Michael McDonald Greg Haughton Danny McFarlane Davian Clarke Paston Coke* Omar Brown*	2:59.34	South Africa (RSA) Jopie van Oudtshoorn Hendrick Mokganyetsi Adriaan Botha Arnaud Malherbe	3:00.20 (NR)
WR world record \| AR area record \| CR championship record \| GR games record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB personal best \| SB season best \| WL world leading (in a given season)

Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.
¹ German Skurygin of Russia originally won the gold medal in the 50 km walk in 3:44:23, but was disqualified after he tested positive for drugs in November 2001.
² Nigeria (Innocent Asonze, Francis Obikwelu, Daniel Effiong, Deji Aliu) originally won the bronze medal in 37.91, but were disqualified on August 31, 2005 after it was found Asonze had failed a doping test in June 1999.
³ The United States (Jerome Davis, Antonio Pettigrew, Angelo Taylor, Michael Johnson) originally won the gold medal in 2:56.45, but were disqualified in 2008 after Antonio Pettigrew admitted to using HGH and EPO between 1997 and 2003.

Field

1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Vyacheslav Voronin Russia	2.37 (WL)	Mark Boswell Canada	2.35 (NR)	Martin Buß Germany	2.32
Pole vault details	Maksim Tarasov Russia	6.02 (CR)	Dmitri Markov Australia	5.90	Aleksandr Averbukh Israel	5.80 (NR)
Long jump details	Iván Pedroso Cuba	8.56	Yago Lamela Spain	8.40	Gregor Cankar Slovenia	8.36 (SB)
Triple jump details	Charles Friedek Germany	17.59 (WL)	Rostislav Dimitrov Bulgaria	17.49 (PB)	Jonathan Edwards Great Britain	17.48
Shot put details	C.J. Hunter United States	21.79 (PB)	Oliver-Sven Buder Germany	21.42 (SB)	Oleksandr Bagach Ukraine	21.26
Discus throw details	Anthony Washington United States	69.08 (CR)	Jürgen Schult Germany	68.18 (SB)	Lars Riedel Germany	68.09
Javelin throw details	Aki Parviainen Finland	89.52	Konstadinos Gatsioudis Greece	89.18	Jan Železný Czech Republic	87.67
Hammer throw details	Karsten Kobs Germany	80.24	Zsolt Németh Hungary	79.05	Vladislav Piskunov Ukraine	79.03
Decathlon details	Tomáš Dvořák Czech Republic	8744	Dean Macey Great Britain	8556 (PB)	Chris Huffins United States	8547 (SB)
WR world record \| AR area record \| CR championship record \| GR games record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB personal best \| SB season best \| WL world leading (in a given season)

Women's results

Track

1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2001 | 2003

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Marion Jones United States	10.70 (CR)	Inger Miller United States	10.79	Ekaterini Thanou Greece	10.84
200 m details	Inger Miller United States	21.77 (WL)	Beverly McDonald Jamaica	22.22 (PB)	Merlene Frazer Jamaica	22.26
200 m details	Inger Miller United States	21.77 (WL)	Beverly McDonald Jamaica	22.22 (PB)	Andrea Philipp Germany	22.26
400 m details	Cathy Freeman Australia	49.67 (SB)	Anja Rücker Germany	49.74 (PB)	Lorraine Graham-Fenton Jamaica	49.92 (PB)
800 m details	Ludmila Formanová Czech Republic	1:56.68	Maria Mutola Mozambique	1:56.72	Svetlana Masterkova Russia	1:56.93
1500 m details	Svetlana Masterkova Russia	3:59.53 (SB)	Regina Jacobs United States	4:00.35 (PB)	Kutre Dulecha Ethiopia	4:00.96 (SB)
5000 m details	Gabriela Szabo Romania	14:41.82 (CR)	Zahra Ouaziz Morocco	14:43.15	Ayelech Worku Ethiopia	14:44.22 (PB)
10,000 m details	Gete Wami Ethiopia	30:24.56 (CR)	Paula Radcliffe Great Britain	30:27.13 (NR)	Tegla Loroupe Kenya	30:32.03 (NR)
Marathon details	Jong Song-Ok North Korea	2:26:59 (NR)	Ari Ichihashi Japan	2:27:02 (PB)	Lidia Șimon Romania	2:27:41
100 m hurdles details	Gail Devers United States	12.37 (WL)	Gloria Alozie Nigeria	12.44 (AR)	Ludmila Engquist Sweden	12.47 (NR)
400 m hurdles details	Daimí Pernía Cuba	52.89 (WL)	Nezha Bidouane Morocco	52.90 (AR)	Deon Hemmings Jamaica	53.16 (SB)
20 km walk details	Liu Hongyu China	1:30:50	Wang Yan China	1:30:52	Kerry Saxby-Junna Australia	1:31:18 (SB)
4 × 100 m relay details	Bahamas (BAH) Savatheda Fynes Chandra Sturrup Pauline Davis-Thompson Debbie Ferguson Eldece Clarke-Lewis*	41.92 (WL)	France (FRA) Patricia Girard Muriel Hurtis Katia Benth Christine Arron Fabé Dia*	42.06 (NR)	Jamaica (JAM) Aleen Bailey Merlene Frazer Beverly McDonald Peta-Gaye Dowdie	42.15 (SB)
4 × 400 m relay details	Russia (RUS) Tatyana Chebykina Svetlana Goncharenko Olga Kotlyarova Natalya Nazarova Natalya Sharova* Yekaterina Bakhvalova*	3:21.98 (WL)	United States (USA) Suziann Reid Maicel Malone-Wallace Michelle Collins Jearl Miles Clark Andrea Anderson*	3:22.09 (SB)	Germany (GER) Anke Feller Uta Rohländer Anja Rücker Grit Breuer Anja Knippel*	3:22.43 (SB)
WR world record \| AR area record \| CR championship record \| GR games record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB personal best \| SB season best \| WL world leading (in a given season)

Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

Field

1995 |1997 |1999 |2001 |2003

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Inha Babakova Ukraine	1.99	Yelena Yelesina Russia	1.99	Svetlana Lapina Russia	1.99 (PB)
Pole vault details	Stacy Dragila United States	4.60 (WR)	Anzhela Balakhonova Ukraine	4.55 (AR)	Tatiana Grigorieva Australia	4.45
Long jump details	Niurka Montalvo Spain	7.06 (NR)	Fiona May Italy	6.94	Marion Jones United States	6.83
Triple jump details	Paraskevi Tsiamita Greece	14.88	Yamilé Aldama Cuba	14.61	Olga Vasdeki Greece	14.61
Shot put details	Astrid Kumbernuss Germany	19.85 (SB)	Nadine Kleinert Germany	19.61 (PB)	Svetlana Krivelyova Russia	19.43
Discus throw details	Franka Dietzsch Germany	68.14	Anastasia Kelesidou Greece	66.05	Nicoleta Grasu Romania	65.35
Hammer throw details	Mihaela Melinte Romania	75.20	Olga Kuzenkova Russia	72.56	Lisa Misipeka American Samoa	66.06
Javelin throw details	Mirela Manjani Greece	67.09 (PB)	Tatyana Shikolenko Russia	66.37 (PB)	Trine Hattestad Norway	66.06
Heptathlon details	Eunice Barber France	6861 (PB)	Denise Lewis Great Britain	6724	Ghada Shouaa Syria	6500
WR world record \| AR area record \| CR championship record \| GR games record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB personal best \| SB season best \| WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table

* Host nation (Spain)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	10	3	4	17
2	Russia (RUS)	5	4	3	12
3	Germany (GER)	4	4	4	12
4	Greece (GRE)	2	2	2	6
5	Morocco (MAR)	2	2	1	5
6	Cuba (CUB)	2	2	0	4
6	Italy (ITA)	2	2	0	4
8	Spain (ESP)*	2	1	1	4
9	Ethiopia (ETH)	2	0	3	5
10	Romania (ROU)	2	0	2	4
11	Czech Republic (CZE)	2	0	1	3
12	Great Britain (GBR)	1	4	2	7
13	Kenya (KEN)	1	4	1	6
14	France (FRA)	1	2	0	3
15	Australia (AUS)	1	1	2	4
15	Ukraine (UKR)	1	1	2	4
17	China (CHN)	1	1	0	2
18	Bahamas (BAH)	1	0	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	0	1
	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
	North Korea (PRK)	1	0	0	1
	Poland (POL)	1	0	0	1
23	Jamaica (JAM)	0	2	4	6
24	Brazil (BRA)	0	2	1	3
25	Canada (CAN)	0	2	0	2
26	Japan (JPN)	0	1	1	2
	Nigeria (NGR)	0	1	1	2
	South Africa (SAF)	0	1	1	2
29	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
	Ecuador (ECU)	0	1	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Mozambique (MOZ)	0	1	0	1
33	Mexico (MEX)	0	0	2	2
34	Algeria (ALG)	0	0	1	1
	American Samoa (ASA)	0	0	1	1
	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
	Syria (SYR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (42 entries)		46	46	47	139

Source: [1]

References

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Early editions	Malmö 1976 (one event only) Sittard 1980 (two events only)
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Disciplines	100 m 200 m 400 m 800 m 1500 m 5000 m 10,000 m 4 × 100 m relay 4 × 400 m relay Sprint hurdles 400 m hurdles Steeplechase Marathon Race walking Shot put Discus throw Hammer throw Javelin throw Pole vault High jump Long jump Triple jump Combined events Template:World Championships in Athletics medalists in men's 110 metres hurdles Template:World Championships in Athletics medalists in men's 400 metres hurdles

Men's results

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Women's results

Track

Field

Medal table

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